kanban / self-hosted project management
A self-hosted, MIT-licensed Kanban project management web application written in PHP, now in maintenance mode.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Choose when you want a self-hosted kanban board with multiple views and an active Mattermost ecosystem.
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Choose when you want a realtime kanban board with dark mode and a lightweight JS stack.
Straightforward realtime kanban boards management for intuitive task tracking. 4ga Boards features an elegant dark mode, collapsible todo lists, and multitasking tools to supercharge your team's productivity.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose when you need sprints, docs, and issue tracking beyond a pure kanban board; heavier AGPL stack.
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
Choose when you need an all-in-one PM/chat/docs platform instead of kanban-only; EPL-2.0 and a heavy TypeScript stack.
Huly โ All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
Choose when you need portfolio management, Gantt charts, and traditional PM modules; GPL-3.0, Ruby-based.
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. โญ Star us on GitHub
Choose when you need goal-focused PM designed for non-project managers; AGPL-3.0, PHP.
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Choose when you want a modern self-hosted PM with a simple UX and MIT license.
๐ฏ All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you.
Choose when you want AI agents as first-class board collaborators; Apache-2.0, young project.
AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as equals โ on the same board, the same sprints, the same goals. Self-hosted. Fully customizable via config and plugins.
Choose when you need a lightweight agile PM oriented to Chinese-speaking teams; AGPL-3.0, JavaScript.
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Choose when you need company-wide goals and updates, not just kanban; Elixir stack.
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Choose when you want a self-hosted Linear-style planning tool with AI assistance; AGPL-3.0.
Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Linear and Plane. Project management and issue tracking where teams and AI agents work side by side to plan and ship products.
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Choose when you want an AI-orchestrated development workflow on a kanban; narrower than a general PM.
AI Kanban & Development Environment. Orchestrate multiple agents, review changes, open PRs. Multi-provider, self-hostable, no telemetry.
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Choose when you want a local terminal kanban instead of a self-hosted web server.
Kanban Terminal App written in Python
Choose when you want a single-user HTML kanban board, not a team server.
๐ Personal Kanban Board is an agile project management tool that helps you visualise your work, limit your work-in-progress (WIP) and to craft & optimise your work flow to get the maximum output. To achieve this, it makes use of columns and cards. Personal Kanban offers visual clue, columns, WIP limits, start point and end point to set you up for success.
Choose when you want a local visual idea/project board app; not server-deployable.
MasterPlan is a project management software / visual idea board software. It attempts to be easy to use, lightweight, and fun.
Choose when you want a local TUI task manager with minimal kanban logic.
๐ชด A Terminal User Interface (TUI) to manage your tasks with minimal kanban logic
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calls kanboard โchoose when you want a mature PHP Kanban with plugin ecosystem and minimal resources.โ
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
calls kanboard โif you want a minimal, MIT-licensed PHP kanban that runs on shared hostingโ
๐ฏ All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you.
calls kanboard โChoose this for a minimal self-hosted kanban board only; it has no cycles, docs, or roadmaps.โ
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
calls kanboard โchoose if you need a minimal PHP/MySQL Kanban board without AI or Scrum sprint planning.โ
AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as equals โ on the same board, the same sprints, the same goals. Self-hosted. Fully customizable via config and plugins.